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    • Maintaining a healthy dose of curiosity about the world around you will <a href="https://bestlifeonline.com/tips-for-a-sharper-brain/?utm_source=yahoo-news&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=yahoo-feed">help sharpen your mind</a>, make you happier, strengthen your relationships, and even <a href="https://bestlifeonline.com/procrastinating-productively/?utm_source=yahoo-news&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=yahoo-feed">improve your productivity</a>. In fact, <strong>Albert Einstein</strong> once remarked, "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." And that could be you!

If you want to set yourself on a path to reaping those incredible benefits, just like Einstein, read the 125 facts we've compiled here. They're fun, they're interesting, and they're guaranteed to <a href="https://bestlifeonline.com/interesting-facts/?utm_source=yahoo-news&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=yahoo-feed">pique your curiosity</a>. It's time to arm yourself with all sorts of <a href="https://bestlifeonline.com/weird-questionable-facts/?utm_source=yahoo-news&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=yahoo-feed">fascinating facts and trivia</a> that will make you feel like a total genius, boosting your confidence in a flash!

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    • If you happen to be around a monkey, you might be inclined to feed it a banana. But the fact is, bananas contain far too much sugar for monkeys to handle. "Giving this fruit to animals is equivalent to giving them cake and chocolate," according to <a href="https://www.paigntonzoo.org.uk/explore/news/detail/taking-diet-tips-from-monkeys" target="_blank"><strong>Dr. Amy Plowman</strong></a>, head of conservation and advocacy at the Paignton Zoo in Devon, U.K. "Compared to the food they would eat in the wild, bananas … have lots of calories and contain much more sugar that's bad for their teeth and can lead to diabetes and similar conditions. It can also cause gastrointestinal problems as their stomachs are mostly adapted to eating fibrous foods with very low digestibility." The more you know!
    • Don't blame your bad hand at the poker table on a stroke of bad luck; it's really just a matter of math, seeing as there are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are <a href="http://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/inquiring/questions/atoms.html" target="_blank">total atoms on Earth</a>! If a card deck is shuffled properly, there's a pretty high chance that it comes out in an arrangement that has never existed before, because a deck of 52 cards has an astronomically large number of <a href="http://www.murderousmaths.co.uk/cardperms.htm" target="_blank">permutations</a>. (Put simply: It's a <em>69-digit</em> number!)
    • <strong>William Shakespeare</strong> had a flair for the dramatic, but he also relied on some tried and true tropes, including the ways he killed off his characters. When <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-interactive/2016/apr/22/william-shakespeares-legacy-analysed" target="_blank"><i>The Guardian</i></a> broke down data from <a href="http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/" target="_blank">Open Source Shakespeare</a> in 2016, they found that the majority of fatalities (54 out of the 100 deaths in all of his plays) were due to stabbings. The second most common cause of death was being poisoned, although just four characters met their maker this way.
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    If you happen to be around a monkey, you might be inclined to feed it a banana. But the fact is, bananas contain far too much sugar for monkeys to handle. "Giving this fruit to animals is equivalent to giving them cake and chocolate," according to Dr. Amy Plowman, head of conservation and advocacy at the Paignton Zoo in Devon, U.K. "Compared to the food they would eat in the wild, bananas … have lots of calories and contain much more sugar that's bad for their teeth and can lead to diabetes and similar conditions. It can also cause gastrointestinal problems as their stomachs are mostly adapted to eating fibrous foods with very low digestibility." The more you know!
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